The 2nd MLF School is targeted at postgraduate students and early-career researchers from anywhere in the world who are interested in using neutron or muon beams in their research but who have limited or no experience with these techniques. The program will include introductory-level lectures and hands-on practical sessions on the neutron and muon instruments at the MLF.

The meeting will cover diverse aspects of crystallographic research ranging from life sciences, drug development, crystal engineering to theory, instrumentation, synchrotron and neutron studies.

The International Program Committee is working very hard to bring together a stimulating program that covers all aspects of crystallography with research talks on progress at the forefront of our subject. 2015 marks a very special anniversary in our discipline marking 100 years since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Sir William Henry Bragg and his son William Lawrence Bragg.

The scope of the workshop is to bring together experts doing research in high magnetic fields above 15 T with the focus on neutron scattering. We want to provide an information platform for researchers regarding the future use of the high‐field facility capable of generating magnetic fields as high as 25+ T at HZB. Identification of possible future experiments using this facility is one of the main workshop topics. The workshop covers neutron diffraction, SANS and inelastic scattering in high magnetic fields and other extreme sample environments, and the science topics range from applied to fundamental problems in high magnetic fields including superconductivity, quantum magnetism, functional materials etc.

L'Institut de Chimie Séparative de Marcoule et l'Institut Européen des Membranes organisent une Ecole de Réflectivité des rayons-X et des neutrons à Marcoule du 1er au 3 octobre 2014.

Le programme met l'accent sur la pratique : manipulation à l'appareil et modélisation des données. Des cours théoriques complètent la formation.

Cette école s’adresse surtout à des doctorants et des jeunes chercheurs travaillant dans le domaine des surfaces et des couches minces et souhaitant utiliser la réflectivité.

• Tilo Baumbach (KIT)
• Stuart Clarke (Cambridge University)
• Björgvin Hjörvarsson (Uppsala Universitet)
• Sean Langridge (ISIS)
• Dieter Lott (HZG)
• Stefan Mattauch (JCNS)
• Peter Müller Buschbaum (Technische Universität München)
• Ullrich Pietsch (Universität Siegen)
• Oliver Seek (DESY)
• Jochen Stahn (PSI)
• Hanna Wacklin (ESS)
• Hartmut Zabel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

On the occasion of the International Year of Crystallography, the French National Neutron Society is organizing an international school on "CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND NEUTRONS" which will be held in Oléron (France) from 21 to 24th September 2014. There is still time to register (deadline: June 30).

This school suits beginners and advanced researchers wishing to explore and use the capabilities of neutron scattering. The courses will be taught in English.

For European (non-French) students, NMI3 can support the participation of students preparing a formation in a Non-French European University in the frame of "Neutron and Muon European Schools" (NaMES).

The school will focus on the specific strengths of neutron scattering (magnetism, light elements, contrast methods) and present the most relevant neutron techniques for various materials, their limitations and their application fields. It will also show the main technical characteristics of neutron scattering spectrometers available to the French and European communities of crystallographers, chemists, physicists and specialists of Materials Science.

The training will take place over 4 days, during which lectures on the different techniques of neutron scattering will be provided together with practicals. Specificity and complementarity of these techniques with other laboratory techniques (diffraction and X-ray scattering, reflectivity, X-ray spectroscopy and Raman inelastic scattering) will be highlighted.

Fan du LLB is an annual school delivered in French and offering young French-speaking researchers a first contact with real experimental neutron scattering. The school is aimed at students and post-docs working in all scientific areas where neutrons can provide valuable insights, although priority is given to those having never had any contact with neutrons scattering.

After an introduction to neutron sources and neutron scattering, ten different thematic subjects based on different scientific problems that can be addressed by neutron scattering, are proposed to the students. In groups of four to five, the students are then introduced to two different neutrons scattering technique, during three days devoted to experiments and data analysis. One of the distinguishing features of our school is that the students often come with their own samples, which are tested during the training together with our demonstration samples. This ensures a good and efficient participation of the students. The course lasts for 3.5 days.

Effect of Disorder and Disordered Materials

This new Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Neutron Scattering, to be held in Hong Kong in 2015, will feature world-leading neutron scattering scientists who will share and discuss their latest discoveries in the GRC (interactive) style. As it is impossible to capture all new activities over a very diverse field of neutron scattering studies, the conference will instead focus on selected topics that have seen rapid developments over the last few years. Innovative instrumentation is the backbone of scientific discoveries, and thus one of the nine sessions will be devoted to discussions of the performance of innovative instruments. A diverse and vibrant user community is vital for the success of the neutron scattering facilities. We thus particularly encourage the participation of young scientists, to learn and profit from interactions with leading scientists in neutron scattering in the casual environment provided by the conference.

The Magnetic Structure Determination Workshop aims to enhance the community studying magnetism in materials by learning from experts the essential theoretical foundations to magnetic representation analysis and work through real examples to gain experience in solving and refining magnetic structures from neutron powder and single crystal diffraction data.

Lectures and tutorial sessions will cover:

1. Symmetry analysis using representation theory and the SARAh program.
2. Refinement strategies using the Fullprof Suite.
3. Magnetic structure determination from powder (constant wavelength and time-of-flight data) and single crystal data (constant wavelength)
4. Simulated annealing approach for structure solution.

Sample environment equipment and support are vital elements in the success of neutron scattering experiments. The 8th International Workshop on SE@NSF will bring together scientists, engineers and technicians to exchange experience and discuss new ideas. The workshop is being hosted by ISIS, STFC at Eynsham Hall in Oxfordshire. It will begin with a reception on the evening of Sunday 12th October and end after lunch on Thursday 16th October 2014.

The School aims at an audience including researchers and academics as well as beginners or advanced graduate students or post-docs in Solid State Physics, Chemistry and Material Science (expected number of participants is 80). The training objectives of the school are:

• to highlight the specific contribution of neutron scattering for studying the wide variety of crystalline materials with respect to other techniques,
• to present the different neutron techniques (diffraction, reflectometry, 3-axes spectroscopy, … ) with their most relevant limitations and their application fields,
• to promote exchanges between the participants and the senior researchers and well-trained users working on large scale facilities.
  Introductory lectures (crystallography, properties of neutrons and neutron sources) will be given at the beginning of school before detailing more specific techniques for neutron measurements applied to the various problems (nuclear structure / dynamics / magnetism) and studied materials (powder / single crystal / thin film) as well as the main technical characteristics associated with spectrometers.
  Practicals on data analysis will be organized to complete the theoretical training.

The whole training will be published in a volume of the "collection SFN" (EDP sciences). All previous published books can be dowloaded via http://www.neutron-sciences.org/ (free access).

The scope of SXNS13 is to bring together scientists from different research areas that are using surface sensitive x-ray and neutron scattering and complementary techniques for the characterization of solid and liquid surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures in order to exchange new exciting scientific results and recent developments of the techniques. Special emphasis will be put on in-situ characterization under processing or operation conditions.

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The following topics will be covered:

• Interfaces during growth
• Electrochemically active interfaces
• Nanostructured surfaces and interfaces
• Interfaces during chemical reactions
• Atomic structure of interfaces
• Dynamics of surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures
• Bio-relevant interfaces
• Magnetism at surfaces and interfaces
• Development of novel techniques, instruments and sources

Purpose of the Course

The determination of three dimensional structures of new materials is frequently the starting point for mechanistic studies, revealing structure-property relationships, modelling of molecular variants and intelligent design for specific properties. However, these are traditionally static results and although we can follow structure evolution with temperature and pressure, it is far less easy to study time evolution when the time scales of the processes involved are short. The latest high intensity X-ray sources, fast detectors, new techniques and modern software are now taking us into the regime of conducting timeâ€"resolved studies and it is this aspect of structural science that we shall be exploring during this course.

X-ray and neutron diffraction are the most powerful methods for elucidating full 3-D structures from single crystals and microcrystalline powder samples for many forms of matter. The techniques are continuously evolving enabling ever more challenging questions to be addressed and the most difficult of problems to be solved. We shall be describing time resolved studies in crystallography, spectroscopy and computation and looking also at applications of this work as well as looking forward to the future and exciting opportunities and challenges that facilities such as XFEL will bring to the field.

We shall concentrate during the course on:

1) Photocrystallography â€" obtaining structural information from short lived crystalline species.

2) Time resolved spectroscopy - identifying and characterising intermediates and correlating these results with structural data.

3) The future â€" current and upcoming developments in dynamic structural techniques.

4) Theoretical calculation â€" correlating with and supporting experimental studies through computational calculations.

And in addition to the lectures we shall be presenting demonstration and workshop sessions providing training in using modern computer programs in these aforementioned areas.

International Conference on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering (ICNX 2009)

In view ofthe success of previous neutron and x-ray scattering conference in this region (ICNX 2007, Serpong and Bandung, Indonesia), it has been decided to reconvene the International Conference on Neutron and X-Ray Scattering, in 2009. The conference will take place from June 29, 30 and july 1, 2009 at Putra World Trade Centrre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Â

Scattering technique using neutron and x-ray is a powerful method to probe and study the structures and dynamics of materials ranging from the mechanics of protein folding and its effect in physiology to the ordering of atomic magnets of solid materials of industrial interest. Both neutron and x-ray can be exploited using a variety of measurement techniques to provide information not otherwise available.Â

The availability of new optical system that can micro-focus neutron provides opportunity to explore new characterization technique and full-utilization of small research reactor that scattered throughout the world. The emergences of new synchrotrons allow more scientists to use high-intensity x-ray for their research. In addition, new modeling approach and software development permit valuable connection between theoretical and experimental analysis. Â Characterization with neutron and x-ray scattering has made significant contribution to the large research activities in engineering, materials development, polymer dynamics, chemical technology, biological studies, and physics, and will continue to do so.Â

Diffraction at the Nanoscale: Nanocrystals, Defective & Amorphous Materials